Re: New Gal
Originally Posted by
Bren
Welcome!
The resources available to a new player today are mind-boggling compared when I started.
And there are links or threads or posts here on this site that will lead to all of them.
(Goes into old-person rant:
Back in my day ...If you knew no local players or teachers,
You might learn off a book
But how would you even know of the existence of such a book?
You couldn't search the internet
You library probably wouldn't have one listed
You would trek to your nearest music store
Which might not be that near
The music store owner would see what was in the catalogue and offer to order
something like "a complete mandolin method"
which seemed to have scales and everything except the music you wanted to play
Only the city stores had things like Jack Tottle's or Jethro's books
Which only came out in the mid-to-late 1970s)
"Yes, but we were happy."
Welcome to the Cafe, "brobmarketing," the folks here will answer any questions you have. A highly knowledgable and supportive group.
Robert Johnson's mother, describing blues musicians:
"I never did have no trouble with him until he got big enough to be round with bigger boys and off from home. Then he used to follow all these harp blowers, mandoleen (sic) and guitar players."
Lomax, Alan, The Land where The Blues Began, NY: Pantheon, 1993, p.14.
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